Making Modern Meals: How Americans Cook Today (Volume 66) (California Studies in Food and Culture)

Trubek, Amy B.

ISBN 10: 0520289234 / ISBN 13: 9780520289239

Published by University of California Press, 2017

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This is a fine first edition, first printing paperback copy, tan spine.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Making Modern Meals: How Americans Cook Today (Volume 66) (California Studies in Food and Culture)
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0520289234
• ISBN 13: 9780520289239
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Fine

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Synopsis

Home cooking is crucial to our lives, but today we no longer identify it as an obligatory everyday chore. By looking closely at the stories and practices of contemporary American home cooks—witnessing them in the kitchen and at the table—Amy B. Trubek reveals our episodic but also engaged relationship to making meals.
 
Making Modern Meals explores the state of American cooking over the past century and across all its varied practices, whether cooking is considered a chore, a craft, or a creative process. Trubek challenges current assumptions about who cooks, who doesn’t, and what this means for culture, cuisine, and health. She locates, identifies, and discusses the myriad ways Americans cook in the modern age, and in doing so, argues that changes in making our meals—from shopping to cooking to dining—have created new cooks, new cooking categories, and new culinary challenges.

About the Author

Amy B. Trubek is Associate Professor of Nutrition and Food Science at the University of Vermont. She is the author of Haute Cuisine: How the French Invented the Culinary Profession and The Taste of Place: A Cultural Journey into Terroir.